Thereβs nothing like a hearty bowl of soup to warm you up on a winterβs day, but have you ever considered giving soup to your baby?
Iβd always steered clear of anything soup-related after BB pulled a steaming bowl of the stuff onto herself when she was about five months old.
But Iβve recently discovered soup is the perfect food for babies and toddlers after giving some to Little B and seeing how much he loved it.
5 reasons you should give your baby soup
1. Itβs easy for them to eat (or drink). If youβve just started weaning or they donβt have many teeth yet soup is easy for babies and toddlers to eat, while giving them all the nutrition of a main meal.
2. Soup can help with teething. If theyβre going through a particularly bad bout of teething, try giving them chilled soup. It will soothe their aching gums and wonβt aggravate their mouth like hot or warm food will.
3. You can hide vegetables in it. If they baulk at broccoli or cry at the sight of a carrot, soup can hide a multitude of nutritious, fibre-rich veggies. Just make sure you blitz it as smooth as possible first.
4. Itβs an easy peasy meal. You can either make a big batch from scratch and freeze it for later to make life easy in the long run, or buy it. Little Dish has just added three toddler soups to its range (Β£1.25 each) for age one upwardsΒ and all you have to do is stick them in the microwave and theyβre done.
They come in single-portion tomato, chicken & veg and carrot & butternut flavours (I managed to pass that one off as tomato) and contain two of the recommended five-a-day as well as being low in salt with no added sugar. Basically, like you made it yourself.
5. Soup can help them learn to feed themselves. If you make it nice and thick βΒ the recipes on Little Dish’s website are worth a lookΒ β soup will stick to the spoon nicely without rolling off like peas or slipping away like pasta.
There is one down side though: if youβre going to let them feed themselves things will get messy (excuse the pink bib – it was BB’s).
Win a monthβs supply of Little Dish soups!
Weβve teamed up with Little Dish to offer five lucky readers (so thereβs five chances of winning!) a monthβs supply of Little Dish soups, a box of Go Gos snacks and Little Dishβs brand new toddler nutrition guide.
Youβll get eight soups delivered to your door in a Little Dish cool bag (perfect to use for picnics afterwards) as well as a box of five individual packets of Go Gos in one of the brandβs new flavours – cheese, tomato & herb, apple or coconut – and the nutrition guide.
I love Go Gos because theyβre perfect to keep in the cupboard at home for a quick snack, or in the nappy bag when weβre on the go, and each packet comes with its own super cute resealable sticker.
They even happen to have one with Little Bβs name on!
The competition runs from now until midnight on Wednesday November 2 2016 andΒ is open to UK residents only due to the nature of the prize (the soups are fresh!) All you have to do to enter is comment on this post stating who the soups would be for, visit my Facebook page, follow me on Instagram or follow me on Twitter via the Rafflecopter form below.
We were sent a hamper of the new Little Dish soups and Go Gos free of charge in exchange for this post. As always all opinions are my own and based on my own honest experience.
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Ooooooh these look great! I have to agree soup is brilliant, H had some a few weeks ago and really loved it, we had a whole can on minestrone between us…. She especially loved the peas, as that was a real treat at lunch time
I’ll be back to enter x
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Although my son is no longer a baby (sob), he is a huge fan of soup….especially vegetable soup, which I found out recently, much to my surprise! #bestandworst
Ahhh i wish my fussy gremlin liked soup…she has always refused to taste it. We had some Go Gos to try recently and pretty tasty! I entered as fab prize. Thanks for sharing with #bestandworst xx
The soups would be for my little one.
I childmind my little niece so they would be for her!
Such a good idea – I’d never even thought about soup. Anything easy sounds good to me π The soup would be for my 19 month old daughter were I to win xx #bestandworst
Such a good idea – I’d never even thought about soup. Anything easy sounds good to me π The soup would be for my 19 month old daughter were I to win xx #bestandworst
My daughter. She loves soup! π
Soup isn’t just for babies either, my kids eat it like it’s going out of fashion and it’s filled with all the things they detest (vegs)
Great reasons! And they don’t just apply to babies, hiding vegetables works for all of my family!
Haven’t tried soup yet – can’t wait to get stuck in with my little man and give him his first taste (And then clean it off the walls, floor, high chair and probably give him a good old bath to get it out of his hair )
My youngest two children would love these. My older ones are already big soup eaters but I’ve yet to fully introduce the youngest ones to regular soups.
They would be for my daughters, Emily (9 months) and Molly (4 years). Fab to find things that the girls can easily share!
The soups would be for my 10 month old baby girl. Not tried soup with her yet but I really should!
Fab! Soups for my daughter, Ava
Soups would be for my son (and me)
My 2 year old son who always loves to dip his bread in mummy and daddy’s soup. Now he can some of his very own.
My 2 sons. They would love these. They love soup on a cold day
My toddler loves soup! He usually eats mine. I’d love to win the Little Dish soups. He already eats the Pasta bolognese.
My little bear would love this. He’s been poorly lately and there is nothing like a nice bowl of warm soup to make you feel better